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LAGHU <strong>YOGA</strong> VASISTHA<br />

destruction of all Vasanas is like a child or a mute<br />

in intelligence. In that state, all visibles being<br />

abandoned, he attains full Atma-Jnana without any<br />

Vritti-Jnana. Then will his Jnana not at all recur to<br />

any objects; and freed from all pains through<br />

Nirvikalpa Samadhi, he will be filled with full<br />

bliss, like the blue colour permeating all<br />

throughout the Akasa. A Jnani therefore is always<br />

steadfast in such a Samadhi without in the least<br />

longing after the visibles and will always be<br />

revelling in the bliss of his own Atman. Whether<br />

standing or walking or talking or touching, he is<br />

disassociated from them, not having any attraction<br />

or repulsion to them though engaged in ordinary<br />

worldly actions.<br />

The seed of this Jnana (or intelligence), is the noble<br />

Satta-Matra. Out of this primeval Satta, Jnana rises<br />

as a light from flame. This Satta has two aspects.<br />

One is heterogeneity and the other is homogeneity.<br />

Now we shall explain them both. Pots, pictures<br />

and other objects, although they appear diverse,<br />

are yet one, in that they are only the<br />

differentiations of the one „Sat‟ (substance, namely<br />

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